Samuel Richardson Quotes
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Samuel Richardson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
For my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.
To be sure she must be an atheist!
To be sure she must be an atheist!
For God's sake *what*, sir? How can God's sake and your sake, I pray you, be the same?"
~Clarissa Harlowe~
~Clarissa Harlowe~
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
To be courted as princesses for a few weeks, in order to be treated as slaves for the rest of our lives.
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.